Abstract
- Received 29 May 1941
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.70.555
©1946 American Physical Society
Focus
FocusLandmarks: The Physical Review’s Explosive Secret
Published 26 October 2004
The Physical Review delayed publishing the 1941 discovery of plutonium–which was used in an atomic bomb–until 1946 because of wartime security concerns.
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